#but apparently otters

[balkanradfem]

I just had an Experience in the water.

Heading home from my garden where I re-planted new tomatoes (because my original ones all got destroyed by the frost, RIP), I was feeling a little dizzy, light-headead and woozy. I figured putting myself inside the cold river was the best solution for all of these things, so I changed my course to the secluded edge of the fields, where trees and bushes were guarding the ground. And, if one was not afraid of slipping and rolling down, water could be accessed as well.

I hid myself into the bushy riverside area, got most of my clothing off and slowly tipped inside the river. It was colder than usual, due to the recent frosty days, so it took me a few tries to get myself completely submerged. I usually make sure nobody can see me; this time there was a small group on the other side of the river, but they seemed to be children, and I don't believe they had noticed me at all.

I was having a great time up to my neck inside the icy water, when something hit the back of my thigh. A log must have somehow bumped into me, I thought, and I turned around trying to see it in the water, when something poked its head out and swam around me. A dog somehow swam here, I thought even more confused, but then she turned her head around, and looked at me, and I realized it was a beaver! A whole big grown up beaver was right next to me, looking at me! I gasped and stared mesmerized, while she stared back at me good-naturedly, for a good few seconds, both of us in shock. Then she turned to swim away, but I couldn't watch her departure because something else got my full attention. A big bird was flying right at me. I saw the big wing span before I saw the head, and it was – a heron. I was immediately thrilled by this, because herons will not come close to me, I had herons offendedly fly away if I so much as looked at them from 500 meters distance. This one was already so close! Come to me, I thought with satisfaction, but then, already so close, the heron realized I was there, and changed direction mid-flight, flinching away from my offensive presence. It made a big circle to the other side of the river instead. I could still see it from up close!

Also during this entire encounter, I was almost completely naked, was only wearing my underwear. The animals were also not wearing anything so we were all even. I've never seen a beaver, or a heron, from such short distance before. I don't think this kind of thing could happen in the warmer months, I think the animals only relax this much in the river when the water is not very human-hospitable, so they don't expect to run into a whole human being while chilling on a Saturday evening.

My first interaction with a beaver was an underwater headbutt! It wasn't strong, but I can still feel the place on my thigh where she bumped into me, it was so damn cool.

Now, the mystery remains: why were both the beaver and the heron heading for this exact location, at the same time? My first thought was that maybe heron was hunting the beaver, but it doesn't make any sense, the beaver is way too big to be prey. Then I thought, maybe all of this was a coincidence. Maybe the beaver was just there to get some of the floating logs, because she needed some building material. And the heron was using this spot as her usual chilling place, and I rudely occupied it before she could land there. But then it hit me.

They were heading for the same spot, at the same time, because they had a meeting. They were secret friends, and this spot was their hangout spot. They were gonna chill together and discuss recent river news. I sadly was not accepted into their friend group as I was the wrong species and also did not announce that I would be there. I scared them away, my only hope is that they had a chance to gossip and rant about me later.

[samijey]

Kevin being just like me by going right for my fave - a red panda, and using the opportunity to dunk on Sami while he's at it

[hychlorions]

Hi!! For art requests, maybe Trucy performing a lil magic trick or something for Apollo? Love your art btw ❤️❤️

she bought him this plushie at the mall to celebrate another win 😎👍

[pineapple-frenzy]

omg friend i love your book 2 au posts and i would love to see zutara with their little animal buddy they pick up along the way!

Aahhh thank you!!

I wanted some kind of cat for them cause catparents!zutara real, so I think they would have a catowl

[bluishfrog]

Keep your hand in mine, always, and we’ll float together wherever the current takes us.

[kitnita]

★ — comments from matt duchene, jake oettinger, mason + lexy marchment, joel hanley, tyler seguin & ethan cardwell on ty dellandrea's goodbye post via instagram; septmber 1, 2024

+ bonus comment:

[tumbleweeddesktop]

Injured dragon Neuvilette takes the form of an otter and is found by park ranger Wriothesley who caught the wolves almost eating him so he saves him and brings him back to his lodging

[apuff]

thinking about love in danger days

this is part of my conspiracy theory that that album is aroallo, but i've always gotten the sense that romance and romantic attatchment is much less important to danger days than any other mcr record. with bullets&revenge it's quite obvious as the demolition lovers take up like, everything, and the black parade has a heavy focus on a romantic relationship as well. 

while i do think there are lines in it that are romantically coded, there is a definitive lack of emphasis on it- like it's nowhere in the plot at all. 

i do think danger days represents a very familial type of love though. while other albums visit a sense of "i want you, i need you, i miss you, i hate you,", this is more like…"i love you, i want to protect you, i'm sorry"

i find this especially strongly in s/c/a/r/e/c/r/o/w:

"Nevermind about the shape i'm in, I'll keep you safe tonight"

"love, love, love won't stop this bomb"

"run, run, bunny, run"

and other songs: 

"i'll find you when the sun goes black"

"just save yourself and i'll hold them back tonight"

"how long until we find our way in the dark and out of harm"

relevant things i can't cover with just quotes are planetary go, oft-theorized to be about party poison and kobra kid, as brothers, leaving battery city together; sing, about the killjoys' last message to the girl while saving her; goodnite dr. death, phrased as him saying goodnight to children; and summertime, which i can't discern the meaning of but seems more like a family type of love. 

i think it makes sense that danger days is like this, seeing as it features main characters that take care of a child main character as opposed to main characters that love other main characters of the same age/ability. 

another thing i noticed while re-listening to the more sentimental songs for this essay is that there's just a distinctly different vibe to it. So much of it is focused around wanting to protect people, keep them safe and out of danger (<- ha that's the name of the album) and loved. i think this also makes sense, because the killjoys live a very, well, dangerous life without much security, and they'd want to provide what they lack the most. another semi-related thing i noticed is just how much of an emphasis there is on childhood in this album. i feel like there's a vibe of youth or teen-hood throughout the earlier ones, but this is just VERY strongly about kids. again this makes sense cause not only are the killjoys teenagers (a type of kid!) they also have a proper little kid to watch. 

also, i wonder how much of this stuff was due to gerard becoming a parent. just something to think about 

[cabthemunchlax]

I had a funny idea last night after seeing a tweet from the creator of shipwrecked64. I knew that I needed to recreate that old Neil Cicierega comic of The Little Mermaid that spawned a bunch of memes awhile ago.

[meiloorunsmoothie]

DID YOU WATCH JOEY THE SEA OTTER IN 2020? 🦦

...maybe? it's very possible 🤣, but i can't say i remember for sure

i have seen her ⬇️ in person

[rosecoloredmuses]

"I don't trust otters."

[sparrowmoth]

Wylan Van... Otter? A birthday gift for my beautiful friend, Kam. 💖

Please do not use, edit, or repost my art without permission. Thanks!

[staringamassivemistakeintheface]

So, the university’s chapter of the Wildlife Society does a river otter population survey close to the start of each semester. I had been really looking forward to it, it seemed fun. I had my clothes set out and everything, I had my alarm set nice and early.

Well. I guess I accidentally turned off my alarm at some point before I went to bed. Because they left campus at 7.

I woke up at 7:04.

FUCK!!

[dogpumpkin]

I still need to draw some kind of mustelid with ram horns bc. That's my version of a jackalope

[sweetlyfez]

The holghras. I didn't feel like the bestiary entry gave me much to inform the shape of this bird, so I've grabbed an assortment of unsettling parts in hopes of creating an overall unsettling bird.

It's a wader bc they have nesting habits similar to the description, and duck and seagull features bc they have terrible sex lives

[kitnita]

seeing everyone's ruminations on trevorjamie and tknolan in the past week has been fascinating as someone who has permanently hitched my wagon to the dallas stars because on one hand, for better or for worse, jim nill would rather die himself than break apart any of his soulbonded pairs* but also no one who isn't already a stars fan cares about them, like, even a little bit

* beloved perennial healthy scratch tradebait ty dellandrea is on thin ice given that he's more of a constant third in various throuples but we remain delusionally hopeful about his staying power given that the team runs on throuples